Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2247 The Demonic Clown

Facebook went public with unprecedented success. It is the technology company with the largest financing scale in history. The trading volume in a single day exceeded 5.7 million shares, which shows the enthusiasm of the market for this stock.

After listing, Facebook has become the fifth largest company in the world with the highest market value after Apple with $5000 billion, Microsoft with $2500 billion, Google with $2300 billion and Amazon with $1200 billion.

However, something went wrong along the way.

Facebook originally planned to open trading at 11:[-] a.m. Eastern Time, but due to the heavy buying from retail investors, the system crashed, and the opening was delayed twice, and trading started half an hour later than originally planned.

This has caught the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which will launch some investigations into the matter.

So much so that the financing account was frozen.

But it's not a big problem.

Through this IPO, Ziweixing International has obtained a total of US$26.5 billion in proceeds, and after deducting the 15% capital gains tax, there is still US$22.5 billion left.

Zhou Buqi feels that his business is booming recently. Don't look at Facebook's IPO, but related reports in the financial media show that Boss Zhou is no less popular than Zuckerberg.

Yahoo is up for sale, a rumor that has been swirling in the market for years.

However, there is no time closer to the truth than this moment.

Yahoo really wants to sell!
Zhou Buqi has already dealt with Yahoo's forces one after another. This matter has been finalized. All parties are undergoing final audit and due diligence. It is expected that the transaction plan will be officially announced by the end of this month.

In order to promote the completion of this matter and avoid distraction, Boss Ma also made some concessions, allowing the transaction between Yahoo and Ali to be postponed until July 7.

However, there is one last step to go.

Will the U.S. regulators agree to Ziweixing International’s acquisition of Yahoo?

In the past two years, this matter has even risen to a diplomatic topic between China and the United States.

Because many Chinese-funded enterprises come to invest in the United States and have been "censored".

The U.S. side said that there is no such set. They welcome any company to invest and develop in the U.S. There are already tens of thousands of Chinese-funded companies in the U.S., which have created more than 500 million jobs. They do not have any restrictions.

The so-called Chinese-funded enterprises do not mean Chinese enterprises.

If an American company has received Chinese capital investment, even if it has a Chinese background, it can be listed as a Chinese-funded enterprise.

There are too many companies like this.

Including Ziweixing International, it is a real Chinese-funded enterprise.

Zhou Buqi spent three days, together with Yang Zhiyuan, Alex Jones and others, interviewing some people, trying to eliminate the risk in this regard.

As it turns out, there is no limit.

Those "censorships" are mainly aimed at state-owned enterprises.

According to their side, the United States pursues a free market economy, and competition among companies is dominated by the market.If it is a state-owned enterprise, the nature is different. In many cases, national strategy can override market competition, which will cause unfairness in market competition.

Ziwei Star International does not have any state-owned shareholders, and the entire financial bottom report is open and transparent, and there is no need to hide anything.Moreover, Yahoo is declining day by day, and it is going from bad to worse, and it seems to be dying... It is also something the authorities are willing to see if Yahoo can be saved.

In this way, the last obstacle was completely removed.

On May 5, Zhou Buqi returned from Washington to his home in Silicon Valley beaming.

He received a call from the boss of Wanda Wang.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "How is it? Am I right? The film market is on fire, right? This May has not yet passed, and it has already created the best May box office revenue ever."

Boss Wang repeatedly said: "Thank you! Thank you! The acquisition of AMC Theaters is a good start for Wanda's overseas strategy. In the past few days, the former shareholders of AMC Theaters have contacted me, saying that they regretted it, and the price was sold. low."

Zhou Buqi said: "As long as there are no major changes, the movie market will only get better and better. The era of entertainment to death has come."

"Well, it's true." Boss Wang seemed a little hesitant, and then said in a difficult way, "Mr. Zhou, have you read some domestic reports?"

Zhou Buqi was a little surprised, "What report?"

Boss Wang said: "It's just some comments about Wanda's acquisition of AMC Cinemas. Some of them are ugly. There are many on Weibo, Toutiao, and friends online."

Zhou Buqi understood what he meant, and felt helpless, "There is nothing I can do about it."

Boss Wang said very annoyed: "State-owned enterprises' overseas mergers and acquisitions have suffered a mess, and even tens of billions of dollars have been lost, and they dare not even say a fart. Even if our private enterprises have achieved great success in overseas acquisitions, some people still make irresponsible remarks. .”

Zhou Buqi was very indifferent to this, "Hold on, the heart is pure when you don't see it. You can ask those private companies that have carried out mergers and acquisitions overseas in the past few years. It's not surprising that they are all similar. There are open ones, There are conservative ones."

Boss Wang was not reconciled, "Can't control the comments? Can you delete the post?"

Zhou Buqi was silent for a while, and then slowly said: "Mr. Wang, you can delete posts, of course you can do it. But I think the reason why we are right is that we are different from them. They can control comments and delete posts." , we don’t bother to do it. Time and financial reports are the best proof.”

Boss Wang stopped talking.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Now is the world of the Internet, anyone can stand up and talk nonsense, who has not been splashed with sewage? Who told me last time, I think it makes sense. If a company is on the Internet If there is no negative news at all, then this company must be hopelessly negative; if a person has no negative information on the Internet, then this person must be a hopelessly liar.”

Boss Wang smiled and said, "You have such a good attitude."

Zhou Buqi said: "It's fine if you get used to this kind of thing, there's no need to pay attention to those monsters."

"By the way, I read the news that you are going to buy Yahoo?"

"Correct."

"Really?"

"real."

"Great!"

Boss Wang sincerely sighed.

They are still amazing!
Having dinner at home, there are so many people that there is not even room for a long table. On the left are Wen Zhixia, Zhen Yu, Shi Jinglin, Sun Guanran, Ning Lu, and Gu Zanli, and on the right are Aunt Xue, Xue Baoshan, Wu Yu, and Ning Ya Xian, Ning Yameng, Guan Nanqing, Mai Feixue...

And that's not even counting the kids.

It's really harmonious and lively.

Zhou Buqi sat in the center and looked around, trying to find the target of tonight's flop.

Wen Zhixia was beside him, and said softly, "There are reports in China that you want to acquire Yahoo, and some reports are not very friendly."

Zhou Buqi smiled, "It's not surprising."

Wen Zhixia nodded lightly, but he was a little puzzled, "Ordinary people are fine, but some media people and experts are very irresponsible, saying that Ziweixing International's acquisition of Yahoo is just a cover-up, and it is a way to deceive the people in China. Actually The above is that Yahoo acquired Ziweixing International, which is actually a loss of high-quality domestic assets, and the country should investigate this transaction.”

Zhou Buqi didn't take it seriously, "The forest is big and there are all kinds of birds."

Wen Zhixia said: "Linlin said that this is a queen expert, it may be a signal to convey."

Zhou Buqi gave a "hmm", "It's possible."

If Ziweixing International wants to acquire Yahoo, it needs the approval of the United States and the approval of the European Union.However, it does not need to go through the approval of Japan, because Yahoo has no business in Japan, and the market has been ceded to Yahoo Japan.

For the same reason, domestic approval is not required.

Neither Ziweixing International nor Yahoo has developed the domestic market.

There are huge interests involved in this transaction of more than 200 billion US dollars.Casually showing a little bit from between the teeth is enough for many people to eat and drink for a lifetime.

It is not too surprising that many people want to stare and participate.

Zhou Buqi is not used to them, "This kind of thing doesn't come from a serious channel. Nine times out of ten, it's just some people's greed in private, a group of clowns, don't worry about them."

(End of this chapter)